Sunday, May 23, 2010

It's a pleasure

It gives me huge thrills to see Absent listed among the credits in books and chapbooks by writers I love. (Alphabetically, it's usually first. W00t.) This is one of the best parts of editing a magazine. I just want to give a quick shout-out to some of the poetry collections that have come out in the past year or two with poems that originally appeared in Absent. I heartily recommend all of them, natch.

Stars of the Night Commute by Ana Bozicevic

The Last Four Things by Kate Greenstreet

Sunny Wednesday by Noelle Kocot

God Damsel by Reb Livingston

Plummet by Chris Nealon

Run by Kim Gek Lin Short

The Cosmopolitan by Donna Stonecipher

Post Moxie by Julia Story

For People Who Like Gravity and Other People by Chris Tonelli

I think For Girls by Shanna Compton has an Absent poem in it too, but I can't find our copy to confirm. Adam Golaski's Color Plates would qualify but it's not out yet; look for it from Rose Metal Press in the fall. There are a few others I'm not sure about because I can't find our copies at the moment (Scary, No Scary by Zach Schomburg, Creation Myth by Mathias Svalina, Starsdown by Jasper Bernes). Who am I forgetting?

2 comments:

Congrats! We need to measure our success, sometimes, in poetry. Because, you know. For a lot of the work involved, we probably could have made more money delivering pizza. Plus, free pizza. Mmm... Pizza. I have apparently chosen the wrong career.